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WILLIAM    MAKEPEACE 
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BY 
MR.    TITMARSH 


NEW   YORK 

THE    G  ADSHILL    CLUB 

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NOTE 

AN  INTERESTING  EVENT  by 
William  Makepeace  Thackeray, 
fir^  appeared  in  The  Keepsake  for 
1849,  published  in  London  by  David 
Bogue.  The  same  year,  a  few  copies 
of  this  item  (probably  less  than  a  dozen) 
were  issued  in  separate  form.  At  the 
recent  sale  of  the  library  of  the  late  Au- 
gu^in  Daly,  Esq.,  one  of  these  volumes 
brought  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fif- 
teen dollars. 

Although  this  little  ^ory  is  in  Thack- 
eray's happie^  and  mo^  charadleri^ic 
vein,  it  has  never  been  included  in  any 

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colleded  edition  of  his  works,  nor  has  it 
ever  been  reprinted  in  separate  form. 

The  text  here  followed  is  that  of  The 
Keepsake  for  1 849,  pages  two  hundred 
and  seven  to  two  hundred  and  fifteen. 


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SITTING  the  other  day  alone  at  din- 
ner at  the  club,  and  at  the  next 
table  to  Smith,  who  was  in  conversation 
with  his  friend  Jones,  1  could  not  but 
overhear  their  colloquy,  or,  rather,  Mr. 
Smith's  communication  to  his  friend.  As, 
after  all,  it  betrays  no  secrets  of  private 
life ;  as  his  adventure,  such  as  it  is,  may 
happen  to  any  one  of  us  ;  and  as,  above 
all,  the  ^ory  u  not  in  the  lea^  moral  or 
in^rudlive,  I  took  the  liberty  of  writing  it 
down,  as  follows :  — 

"  I  could  not   go    to  that    dinner    at 
the  Topham  Sawyers,"  Smith  remarked, 

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"  where  you  met  the  Duke,  and  where 
Beaumoris  sat  next  to  Miss  Henrica 
Hase  (whom  I  certainly  should  have 
manoeuvred  to  hand  down  to  dinner,  and 
of  course  should  have  had  as  good  a 
chance  as  Bo  of  proposing  for  her,  of  be- 
ing accepted,  and  getting  a  wife  notor- 
iously consumptive,  and  with  six  thousand 
a-year), —  I  could  not  go  to  the  Topham 
Sawyers,  because  1  had  accepted  an  in- 
vitation to  dine  with  my  old  schoolfellow 
Budgeon.  He  lives  near  Hyde  Park 
Gardens,  in  the  Tyburn  quarter.  He 
does  not  give  dinners  often,  and  I  make 
it  a  point,  when  I  have  said  I  will  go  to 
a  man  —  dammy,  sir,  I  make  it  a  point 
not  to  throw  him  over." 

Jones  here  remarked  that  the    wine 
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was  with  Smith,  which  ^atement  the 
other  acknowledged  by  filling  up  a  bump- 
er, and  then  resumed  :  — 

"  I  knew  that  the  Budgeons  had  ask- 
ed a  large  party,  and,  indeed,  all  their 
crack  people ;  for  I  had  seen  Mrs.  Budg- 
eon  in  the  Park  the  day  before,  driving 
by  the  Serpentine  in  her  open  carriage, 
and  looking  uncommonly  intere^ing. 
She  had  her  be^  folks, —  she  mentioned 
them;  nor  did  I  forget  to  let  her  know 
that  I  was  myself  invited  to  the  Topham 
Sawyers  on  the  same  day, —  for  there  is 
no  use  in  making  yourself  too  cheap ;  and 
if  you  do  move  about  in  a  decent  circle, 
Jones,  my  boy,  1  advise  you  to  let  your 
friends  know  it. " 

Jones  observed  that  he  thought  the 
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claret  was  corked,  and  the  filberts  were 
fine.     Smith  continued :  — 

"  I  do  not  always  array  myself  in  a 
white  neckcloth  and  wai^coat  to  go  to 
dinner,  Jones ;  but  I  think  it  is  right  on 
grand  days  to  do  so  —  I  think  it's  right. 
Well,  sir,  I  put  myself  into  my  very  be^ 
fig,  embroidered  shirt,  white  wai^coat, 
turquoise  buttons,  white  dockings,  and 
that  sort  of  thing,  and  set  out  for  Dudg- 
eon's at  a  quarter  to  eight.  I  dressed 
here  at  the  Club.  My  fool  of  a  servant 
had  not  brought  me  any  white  gloves 
though ;  so  I  was  obliged  to  buy  a  pair 
for  three-and-sixpence,  as  we  drove  by 
Houbigant's. 

"  I  recoiled  it  was  the  thirty-fir^  of 
June,  and,  as  a  matter  of  course,  it  was 

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pouring  with  rain.  By  the  way,  do  you 
bdke  your  white  neckcloths  in  damp 
weather,  Jones?  It's  the  only  way  to 
keep   em  right." 

Jones  said  he  thought  this  was  a  bet- 
ter bottle  than  the  la^. 

"  I  drove  up,  sir,  to  Budgeon's  door  at 
Hyde  Park  Gardens,  and  of  course  had 
a  row  with  the  scoundrelly  cabman  about 
his  fare.  I  gave  him  eighteenpence ;  he 
said  a  gentleman  would  have  given  him 
half-a-crown.  'Confound  your  impud- 
ence, sir ! '  said  I.  '  Veil,'  said  the  im- 
pudent brute,  'veil,  I  never  said  you  vos 
one.'  And  at  this  moment  Budgeon's 
door  was  opened  by  Cobb,  his  butler. 
Cobb  was  ^ill  in  pepper-and-salt  trou- 
sers, which  surprised  me.     He  looked 

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rather  dubiously  at  me  in  the  cab. 

"'Am  I  late?'  says  I. 

"  *  No,  sir ;  only  —  you  have  n't  got 
your  note  ?  But  my  ma^er  will  see  you, 
sir.     You  ^op  here,  cab.' 

"And  quitting  the  vehicle,  of  vv^hich 
the  discontented  rascal  of  a  driver  ^ill 
persi^ed  in  saying,  that  '  a  gentleman 
w^ould  gimmy  'alf-a-crownd,'  I  entered 
Mr.  Budgeon's  house,  splashing  my  white 
dockings  in  the  mud  as  I  went  in,  to  the 
accompaniment  of  a  hee-haw  from  the 
brute  on  the  cab-box.  The  familiarity 
of  the  people,  sir,  is  disgu^ing. 

"  I  was  troubled  as  I  entered.  The 
two  bdttdns  of  the  hall-door  were  not 
ca^  open ;  the  fellows  in  black  were  not 
there  to  bawl  out  your  name  up  the 

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^airs ;  there  was  only  Cobb,  in  a  dirty 
Marsella  wai^coat,  jingling  his  watch- 
chain. 

"  '  Good  Heavens,  Cobb  ! '  says  I  — 
for  I  was  devilish  hungry  —  *  what  has 
happened  ? '  And  I  began  to  think  (for 
I  have  heard  Budgeon  is  rather  shaky) 
that  there  was  an  execution  in  the  house. 

"  '  Missis,  sir  —  little  girl,  sir  —  about 
three  o'clock,  sir  —  ma^er  will  see  you 
—  Mr.  Smith,  sir.'  And  with  these 
words  Cobb  ushered  me  into  the  dining- 
room,  where  Budgeon  sat  alone. 

"  There  was  not  the  lea^  preparation 
for  a  grand  dinner,  as  you  may  suppose. 
It  is  true  that  a  soiled  and  crumpled  bit 
of  old  table-cloth  was  spread  at  one  cor- 
ner of  the  table,  with  one  knife  and  fork 

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laid  ;  but  the  main  portion  of  the  mahog- 
any was  only  covered  with  its  usual  green 
baize,  and  Budgeon  sat  at  a  farther  end 
in  his  dressing-gown,  and  writing  letter 
after  letter.  They  are  a  very  numerous 
family.  She  was  a  Miss  Walkinghame, 
—  one  of  the  Wiltshire  Walkinghames. 
You  know  her  name  is  Fanny  Decima, 
and  I  don't  know  how  far  the  teens  in 
the  family  went.  Budgeon  has  five  sis- 
ters himself,  and  he  was  firing  off  notes  to 
all  these  amiable  relatives  when  I  came 
in.  They  were  all,  as  you  may  suppose, 
pretty  much  to  the  same  effedt ;  — 

"  '  My  dear  Maria,'  (or  Eliza  or  Lou- 
isa, according  to  circum^ances),  '  I  write 
a  ha^y  line  to  say  that  our  dear  Fanny 
has  ju^  made  me  a  present  of  a  fifth  lit- 

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tie  girl.  Dr.  Bloxam  is  with  her,  and  I 
have  the  happiness  to  say  that  they  are 
both  doing  perfedly  well.  With  be^  re- 
gards to  Hickson'  (or  Thomson,  or  Jack- 
son, as  the  case  and  the  brother-in-law 
may  be),  '  1  am,  my  dear,  &c.,  affedlion- 
ately  yours,  Leonard  Budgeon.' 

"  Twenty-three  of  these  letters  to  rela- 
tives, besides  thirty-eight  to  put  off  the 
dinner  and  evening  party,  Budgeon  had 
written  ;  and  he  bragged  about  it  as  if  he 
had  done  a  great  feat.  For  my  part,  I 
thought,  with  rage,  that  the  Topham 
Sawyers'  dinner  was  coming  off  at  that 
minute,  and  that  I  might  have  been  pre- 
sent but  for  this  disagreeable  contre- 
temps, 

" '  You're  come  in  time  to  wish  me 

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joy ! '  says  Budgeon,  looking  up  from  his 
paperasses  in  a  piteous  tone  and  man- 
ner. 

Joy,  indeed ! '  says  I.      In  fad,   I 
wished  him  at  Bath. 

"  T  'm  so  accu^omed  to  this  sort  of 
thing,'  said  he,  '  that  I  'm  no  longer  ex- 
cited by  it  at  all.  You'll  ^ay  and  dine 
with  me,  now  you're  come.' 

"  I  looked  daggers  at  him  !  I  might 
have  dined  at  the  Topham  Sawyers,  I 
said,  but  for  this  sudden  arrival. 

"  '  What  is  there  for  dinner,  Cobb  ? 
You'll  lay  a  cover  for  Mr.  Smith.' 

"  Cobb  looked  grave.  '  The  cook  is 
gone  to  fetch  Mrs.  Walkinghame.  1  've 
kep  the  cab,  to  go  to  Queen  Charlotte's 
Hospital  for  —  for  the  nuss.     Buttons  is 

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gone  out  with  the  notes,  sir.  The  young 
ladies'  maid  has  took  them  to  their  haunt 
Codger's ;  the  other  female  servants  is 
busy  up^airs  with  missis,  sir.' 

"  '  Do  you  mean  there's  no  dinner  ? ' 
cries  Budgeon,  lookmg  as  if  he  was  re- 
lieved though.  '  Well,  I  have  written 
the  notes.  Bloxam  says  my  wife  is  on 
no  account  to  be  di^urbed  ;  and  I  tell  you 
what,  Smith,  you  shall  give  me  a  dinner 
at  the  Club.' 

"  '  Very  good,'  I  growled  out ;  altho- 
ugh it  is  deuced  hard  to  be  obliged  to 
give  a  dinner  when  you  have  adually 
refused  the  Topham  Sawyers.  And 
Cobb,  going  up  to  his  maker's  dressing- 
room,  returned  thence  with  the  coat,  hat, 
and  umbrella  with  which  that  gentleman 

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usually  walks  abroad. 

"  *  Come  along,'  said  I,  with  the  be^ 
grace ;  and  we  were  both  going  out  ac- 
cordingly, when  suddenly  the  door  open- 
ed, and  Mrs.  Wake,  Mrs.  Budgeon's 
maid,  who  has  been  with  her  ever  since 
she  was  born,  made  her  appearance. 

"A  man  who  has  in  his  house  a  lady's 
maid  who  has  been  with  his  wife  ever 
since  she  was  born,  has  probably  two  ty- 
rants, certainly  one,  over  him.  I  would 
not  take  a  girl  with  ten  thousand  a-year 
and  a  maid  who  has  been  with  her  from 
the  nursery.  If  your  wife  is  not  jealous 
of  you,  that  woman  is.  If  your  wife  does 
not  know  when  you  slip  in  from  the  Club 
after  midnight,  that  woman  is  awake,  de- 
pend upon  it,  and  hears  you  go  up^airs. 

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If,  under  pretence  of  a  long  debate  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  you  happen  to  go  to 
Greenwich  with  a  bachelor  party,  that 
woman  finds  the  Trafalgar  bill  in  your 
pocket,  and,  somehow,  hears  of  your  es- 
capade. You  fancy  yourself  very  in- 
dependent, and  unobserved,  and  that  you 
can  carry  on,  you  rogue !  quite  snugly  and 
quietly  through  life.  Fool !  you  are  en- 
vironed by  spies,  and  circumvented  by 
occult  tyrants.  Your  friends'  servants 
and  your  own  know  all  that  you  do. 
Your  wife's  maid  has  intelligences  with 
all  the  confidential  females  and  males  of 
your  circle.  You  are  pursued  by  deted- 
ives  in  plain  (some  in  second-hand) 
clothes,  and  your  secrets  are  as  open  to 
them  as  the  area-gate  by  which  they  en- 

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ter  your  house.  Budgeon's  eye  quailed 
before  that  severe  light  blue  one  which 
hawk-beaked  Mrs.  Wake  fixed  upon 
him. 

"  '  You're  not  a  going  out,  sir  ? '  said 
that  woman,  in  a  cracked  voice. 

"  '  Why,  Wake,  I  was  going  to  —  to 
dine  at  the  Club  with  Mr.  Smith  ;  that's 
all, —  with  Mr.  Smith,  you  know  ; '  and 
so,  of  course,  /was  dragged  in. 

" '  I'll  tell  my  missis,  sir,  that  Mr.  Smith 
wished  to  take  you  away;  though  I'm 
sure  he  didn't  know  her  situation,  and  a 
blessed  baby  born  only  five  hours,  and 
the  medical  man  in  the  house.' 

" '  Hang  it ! '  says  I,  '  I  never  asked — 
I —  that  is  — — ' 

" '  O !  I  dessay,  sir,  it  was  ma^er  as 
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a^  hisself,'  Mrs.  Wake  answered.  'And 
my  poor  missis  up^airs,  and  I've  been 
with  her  ever  since  she  was  born,  and 
took  her  from  the  month, —  that  I  did, 
and  /won't  desert  her  now.  But  I  won't 
answer  for  her  life,  nor  Dodor  Bloxam 
won't,  if  ma^er  should  go  out  now,  as 
you  are  a  gom'  to,  sir.' 

"  '  Good  Heavens,  Wake !  why  should- 
n't I?  There's  no  dinner  for  me.  You 
turned  me  out  of  Mrs.  Dudgeon's  room 
when  I  went  up^airs,  and  ordered  me 
not  to  come  up  again.' 

"  *  She's  not  to  be  di^urbed  on  no  ac- 
count, sir.  The  dear  suffering  think,' 
Mrs.  Wake  said,  '  Her  mdr  is  coming, 
and  will  soon  be  year,  that's  one  com- 
fort, and  will  keep  you  company.' 

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"  •  Oh  yes,  Mrs.  Walkinghame,'  Budg- 
eon  ruefully  said.  '  Where  is  she  to  sleep, 
Wake?' 

"  '  In  the  be^  bedroom,  sir  ;  in  coarse, 
in  the  yellow  room,  sir,'  Wake  answered. 

"  *  And  —  and  where  am  I  to  go  ? ' 
asked  the  gentleman. 

'* '  Your  things  is  halready  brought 
down  into  the  ^udy,  and  you're  to  sleep 
on  the  sofy  and  harm-chair,  of  course,  sir,' 
the  other  said. 

"  Budgeon,  now,  is  a  very  ^out,  bulky 
little  man,  the  'sofy'  is  only  a  rout-seat, 
and  the  arm-chair  is  what  you  call  a  Glas- 
tonbury —  an  oak-chair  ornamented  with 
middle-age  gim-cracks,  and  about  as  easy 
as  Edward  the  Confessor's  fauteuil  in 
We^min^er  Abbey.        I  pidlured  the 

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wretch  to  myself,  Wretched  out  on  a 
couch  which  a  fakeer  or  a  hermit  would 
find  hard  to  lie  on. 

"  *  Oh,  thank  you  ! '  was  all  the  cow- 
ed slave  could  say  ;  and  I  saw  at  once, 
from  his  behaviour  to  that  supercilious  fe- 
male and  the  bewildered  obedience 
which  he  appeared  to  be^ow  on  her, 
that  there  was  some  secret  between  them 
which  rendered  the  dome^ic  the  mi^ress 
of  her  employer.  I  wonder  what  it  could 
have  been,  Jones?  She  had  read  pri- 
vate letters  out  of  his  wai^coat  pocket, 
very  likely.  At  any  rate,  my  dear  fel- 
low, when  you  marry,  take  care  to  have 
no  secrets,  or  of  submitting  to  an  inquis- 
itor over  you  in  the  shape  of  a  lady's- 
maid." 

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Jones  ( who,  by  the  way,  is  not,  I 
should  say,  a  man  of  much  conversation- 
al power)  ju^  thanked  Smith  to  pass  the 
bottle  ;  and  the  latter  resumed  his  har- 
rowing narrative. 

"  As  we  were  conversing  in  the  above 
manner,  there  came  a  banging  knock  at 
the  door, —  one  of  those  coarse,  vulgar, 
furious  peals  which  a  cabman,  imitating  a 
footman,  endeavours  to  perform.  We  all 
Parted  guiltily  as  we  heard  it.  It  was 
mo^  likely  some  outlying  gueit,  who,  like 
myself,  had  not  received  his  note  of  ex- 
cuse, and  had  come  forth  to  partake  of 
Budgeon's  mo^  Barmecidal  entertain- 
ment. 

"  '  And  you  haven't  even  a-tied  up  the 
knocker  ? '  said  Mrs.  Wake,  with  a  look 

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of  withering  scorn.  The  knocker  had 
slipped  his  memory,  Budgeon  owned. 
At  which  the  maid  said,  'Of  course.' 
Of  course  she  said  of  course. 

"  Now  Mrs.  Wake,  looking  savagely 
round  her  and  round  the  room,  saw  on 
the  table  my  Gibus'  hat,  which  I  had  set 
down  there,  and  in  it  my  bran  new  white 
gloves,  that  I  had  bought  at  Houbigant's 
for  three-and-sixpence.  A  savage  satis- 
faction lighted  up  her  eyes  as  she  viewed 
them,  and  diving  down  into  her  pocket, 
and  producing  thence  a  piece  of  ^ring, 
this  fiend  in  human  shape  seized  hold  of 
my  gloves  with  a  sarcaSic  apology,  and 
said  she  was  sure  I  would  have  no  objec- 
tion to  her  tying  up  the  knocker  with 
them,  and  preventmg  her  missis  from  be- 

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ing  knocked  to  death.  So  she  sailed  out 
of  the  room  with  my  three-and-sixpence 
in  her  hands,  and,  being  a  tall,  bony  wo- 
man, who  could  reach  up  to  the  knock- 
ers without  difficulty,  she  had  each  of 
them  soon  muffled  up  in  a  beautiful  white 
French  kid,  No.  8  2  • 

** '  You  see  how  it  is,  old  boy,'  Budg- 
eon  dismally  said.  '  Fanny  doesn't  like 
my  leaving  the  house ;  and,  in  her  deli- 
cate condition,  of  course,  we  mu^  hu- 
mour her.  I  mu^  come  and  dine  with 
you  some  other  day.  We  have  plenty  of 
time  before  us,  you  know.  And  tonight  I 
mu^  ilop  and  receive  my  mother-in-law 
and  take  a  mutton-chop  at  home.' 

" '  Take  a  mutton-chop  at  home,  in- 
deed ! '     The  wretched  man  little  knew 

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what  truth  he  was  telling  there  ;  for,  1  give 
you  my  honour,  sir,  five  minutes  after- 
wards, Mrs.  Wake,  having  finished  tying 
up  the  door  with  my  gloves,  and  all  the 
other  servants  cf  the  house  being  absent 
upon  various  errands  conneded  with  the 
mtere^mg  occasion,  she  reappeared  a- 
mong^  us,  holding  an  uncovered  dish,  on 
which  there  were  two  cold  mutton-chops 
left  from  the  children's  dinner !  And  I 
left  the  unhappy  man  to  eat  these,  and 
went  away  to  devour  my  own  chagrin. 
"  It  was  pouring  with  rain,  sir,  as  1 
went  down  the  ^reet.  There  are  no  cabs 
within  a  mile  of  Hyde  Park  Gardens ; 
and  1  was  soon  wet  through,  and  my 
shirt-front  and  cravat  all  rumpled  with 
rain  ;  otherwise,  1  might  have  gone  into  a 

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tavern  and  dined,  and  slipped  into  the 
Topham  Sawyers  in  the  evening.  But 
I  was  too  great  a  figure  for  that ;  and  I 
was  forced,  positively,  to  come  back  to 
this  Club  to  take  my  morning  clothes 
out  of  the  bag,  and  reassume  them,  and 
to  dine  here  at  my  own  charge,  after  hav- 
ing refused  one  of  the  be^  dinners  in 
London." 

"  Is  that  all,  old  boy  ?  "  Jones  asked. 

"All!  no,  it  isn't  all!"  said  Smith, 
with  a  horrid  shriek  of  laughter.  "  Look 
here,  sir."  And  he  pulled  out  a  note, 
which  he  read,  and  which  was  to  the 
following  effed; :  — 

" '  Dear  Smith, —  You  were  the  fir^ 
person  in  the  house  after  an  intere^ing 

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event  occurred  there,  and  Fanny  and  I 
have  agreed  that  you  mu^  be  godfather 
to  our  little  Granger.  Both  are  doing 
very  well,  and  your  little  god-daughter 
eledt  is  pronounced  by  the  authorities  to 
be  the  prettied  and  larger  child  ever  seen 
of  her  age. 

"  '  Mrs.  Walkinghame  is  ^ill  w^ith  us, 
and  Wake  allows  me  to  go  out  some- 
times. When  will  you  give  me  the  din- 
ner you  promised  me  at  the  Megather- 
ium? We  might  go  to  Vauxhall  after- 
wards, where  Van  Amburgh,  I  am  told, 
is  very  intere^ing  and  worth  seeing. 
Yours  ever,  dear  Smith, 
" '  Leonard  Budgeon.' 

" '  There,  sir,"  cried  Smith,  "  is  n't  that 
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enough  to  try  any  man's  patience?  Ju^ 
tot  up  what  that  '  intere^ing  event'  has 
co^  me —  not  the  dinner  to  Budgeon, 
who  is  a  good  fellow,  and  I  don't  grudge 
it  to  him  —  but  the  re^.  Cabs,  four 
shillings;  gloves,  three-and-six ;  Henrica 
Hays,  whom  I  might  have  had  with  two 
hundred  thousand  pounds;  and  add  to 
this  a  silver  mug  or  a  papboat,  which 
will  co^  me  four  or  five  pound,  and  a 
couple  of  guineas  to  that  vixen  of  a  Mrs. 
Wake ; —  and  all  coming  from  an  inter- 
e^ing  event." 

"  Suppose  we  have  coffee  ?  "  Jones  re- 
marked. And  as  I  could  not  li^en  de- 
cently any  more  to  their  conversation,  I 
laid  down  the  newspaper  and   walked 

away. 

FINIS 


This  edition  consi^s  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-five 
copies,  twenty-five  of  which  are  on  Japanese  vellum. 


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